DNS enumeration

Dnsenum which is used to gather information about the target. Quite similar to (DIG) Domain information groper. Each of the DNS records can give bit of information about the target. The more information attacker get from the upfront, the better attacker is prepared for the attack. DNS security should not be left unattended and the security of DNS server is very important & sometimes ignored by many network administrators as seen in past research done by ethical hacking team of International Institute of Cyber Security.

Using DNSenum:

For launching the tool go to linux and type dnsenum.

If dnsenum shows error or warning while executing in any query that means you need update the some perl packages required for dnsenum as shown below:

For installing missing per packages type: cpan String::cpan

For example:

After launching dnsenum.

Using DNS server for A, NS and MX queries- By default if you type dnsenumhackthissite.org. The query will use default DNS to gather information about the domain.

As you can see in above screenshot: host address, name server, mail exchange and zone transfers. Zone transfers got failed because of reverse lookup operation failed.

Ethical hacking researcher of International Institute of Cyber Security have seen many customer with high end firewall and Intrusion Detection Systems but with least DNS security having zone transfer issues.